★★★★★
How do you follow up the biggest album of your career? With an even bigger and more successful album!Kansas had hit it big time with 1976's Leftoverture and its monster single "Carry On My Wayward Son." They must have been feeling a lot of pressure to come up with a follow-up, something that these Southern-bred progsters could be proud of, yet would appeal to the masses as their masterpiece Leftoverture did. Continue with the complex song structures, check...
- www.prognaut.com
2012-04-02
★★★★★
Kansas is an American AOR/pomp rock band that reached its peak with the multi-platinum albums "Leftoverture" (1976) and "Point Of Know Return" (1977). Hits like "Carry On Wayward Son" and "Dust In The Wind" are indelibly printed in my memory. What followed this fourth and fifth studio albums were the live album "Two For The Show" (1978) and the studio albums "Monolith" (1979) and "Audio-Visions" (1980)...
- www.rockreport.be
2011-07-11
★★★★★
This is it, the breakthrough album for Kansas that led them to fame and fortune. How could you not have heard the monster hit that was "Carry On My Wayward Son" opening Leftoverture, with its impeccable harmonies and memorable hard rocking guitar riff? This record is so much more than just that one song however. The band was at a creative peak they would ride through this album and the next, Point of Know Return...
- www.prognaut.com
2011-03-07
★★★★★
Sound: This album is really neat, it definitely caught my attention, becuase it is a little different then the stuff Kansas started throwing out when they became more popular. This band really brings out the violin and this creates a very unique sound when paired with the electric guitar and the keys. The tracks on this album are filled with various insrumental breakdowns and the album itself is very progressive, which is something i found to be a nice surprise...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2010-07-17
★★★★★
2000's Somewhere To Elsewhere (STE) is a return of several key members of Kansas and a return to form as well! After a few years off from studio releases, the band looked up their old friends Dave Hope, Robbie Steinhardt and Kerry Livgren to release a new album of Livgren-penned tunes. The result is the best Kansas album since 1982's Vinyl Confessions.One of my favorite early Kansas songs is Masque's "Icarus-Borne On Wings of Steel" from 1975...
- www.prognaut.com
2010-06-11
★★★★★
Q: How do you tell American art-rockers from their European forebears? A: They sound dumber, they don't play as fast, and their fatalism lacks conviction. The question of humor remains open: Impressed as I am with titles like "Father Padilla Meets the Perfect Gnat" and Leftoverture itself, I find no parallels in the music.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Nothing lazy about Kansas' comeback album Freaks of Nature. The techno synths and hoedown fiddles of "Need" and the AOR schmaltz and African drums on "I Can Fly" are fairly innovative syntheses. But the hard-to-follow tempo changes drown beneath the bloat. These guys still don't realize how silly they can seem: "Under the Knife" is actually an opera about being operated on. B-
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Given thesuccess of cohesive soundtracks like Above the Rim, there's no excusefor the haphazard collection of singles for The Mask. Jim Carrey's "Cuban Pete"isn't demented enough to be amusing, and songs by Vanessa Williams,K7, and Xscape fail to create a mood. Who wants to hear wet noodleHarry Connick Jr. after the funk of Tony Toni Tone? Wait for thesingles.
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
The running joke among '70sKansas haters was that the dust in the wind was really dust betweentheir ears. But what this two-disc self-titled set shows is that they rockedtheir silly cosmic-quest lyrics with both majesty and hooks. Thesecorn-fed mid-Americans could get ridiculously pompous: One suitelasts 16 minutes...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
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